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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Delight''''' was one of fourteen [["C" and "D" Class Destroyer (1931)|"C" and "D" Class destroyers]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
 
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Latest revision as of 12:57, 15 January 2022

H.M.S. Delight (1932)
Pendant Number: H38
Builder: Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Launched: 2 Jun, 1932[1]
Sunk: 29 Jul, 1940[2]
H.M.S. Delight was one of fourteen "C" and "D" Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Delight commissioned at Portsmouth on 1 April, 1933 under command of Commander Albert Lawrence Poland for service with the First Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.[3]

Delight re-commissioned at Devonport on 23 October, 1934 for service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla on the China Station.[4]

Delight re-commissioned on 11 December, 1935 for service with the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla on the China Station.[5]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 38.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 38.
  3. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 230.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 229.
  5. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 229.
  6. ↑ Douglas-Watson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/177. f. 177.
  7. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1933). p. 230.
  8. ↑ Douglas-Watson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/177. f. 177.
  9. ↑ Poland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/117/147. f. 147.
  10. ↑ Arliss Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/118/66. f. 66.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 229.
  12. ↑ "Royal Navy." The Times (London, England), 27 July 1937, p. 8.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 229.
  14. ↑ Taylor Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/121/67. f. 67. Month could be May.
  15. ↑ Uboat.net page on the man.
  16. ↑ Uboat.net page on the man.


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